Blotting-pad



, n Model.) O BAILEY I BLOTTING PAD.

PahtsntedJune 3,1884.

N, PEYERS, Phawmw n UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

: CHARLES J. BAILEY, or NEWTO MASSACHUSETTS.

BLOTTlNG-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of L tters Patent No. 299,716, dated June 3,1884.

Application filed February 27, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. BAILEY, of Newton, county of Middle'sex,and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inBlotting-Pads, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

My invention consists in a blotting-pad composed of a paper-holder andspring holding arms or fingers by which to attach the said pad to asleeve or cuff, as will be described.

Figure l is a perspective view of one of my improved blotting-pads, andFig. 2 shows the same applied to a sleeve.

The pad is composed, essentially, of a thin sheet-metal back plate, a,one or more sheets of blotting-paper, I), held by it, and of the springholding-arms c c, composed of thin metal, and adapted to engage a sleeveor cuff, as. will be described. The plate a will, preferably, be of thinsheet metalsuch as brass nickel-p1atedand the side and edges of the saidplate will be turned over, as at a and indented by a prick-punch, as ata, to form burrs to engage the paper b or the turned-over portions ofthe said plate may be otherwise grooved, ribbed, indented, or corrugatedin a suitable manner to receive and hold the edges of the sheet orsheets of paper, the portions of the back plate which engage theblotting-paper extending parallel with the length of the arm, and beingalways above and so as not to contact with the paper being written upon.The spring-clip c in Fig. 2 is shown as a piece of spring-steel shapedto constitute two spring-arms, and adapted to be sprung over and so asto clasp the sleeve or cuff, thereby retaining thepad thereon whenwriting, so that the blotting-paper can be laid,

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whenever desired, on the written word or line from which it is desiredto take up the surplus ink, thus avoiding manipulating the pad by hand.as at c", to form a holder for a pencil or pen, thus enabling a pencil,f, or a pen, 1), to be held on the arm, instead of above the'ear or inthe mouth, as commonly done by bookkeepers. The spring-fingers 9 enterand connect the pad with the sleeve or cuff, and have prongs or earswhich, by pressure against them of the thumb and finger, will enable theprongs to be forced towagd each other for ready insertion in a sleeve.

The described pad also acts as a cuff or sleeve protector, and as suchis of lighter weight than any cuff-protector known to me.

I-claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a blotting-padprovided with metallic springarms 0 0, adapted to be sprung apart at itsends to embrace the sleeve or arm and hold the pad in place,substantially as described.

2. A blotting-pad provided with a spring clip having a holder for a penor pencil, substantially as described.

3. A blotting-pad provided with springfingers to enter the sleeve orcuff, to hold the pad in place, substantially as described.

4. A blotting-pad provided with a springclip, 0, and spring-fingers g,the former to embrace and the latter to enter the sleeve or cuff,substantially at described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES J. BAILEY. lVitnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs.

The ends of the arms 0 c are bent,

